Ruairí McCann looks back at two distinctly American titles from this year’s Berlinale, one new and one old.
“New York Our Time”—An Interview with Vivienne Dick
Ruairí McCann interviews Irish feminist experimental filmmaker Vivienne Dick about her life’s work.
3 Songs That Got Us Through 2021
Our writers take stock of 3 special songs that got each of them through the dark days in 2021
‘Kiss’
by Ruairí McCann The kiss, that flashpoint of intimacy, communication, and the present tense, has been the subject of art since its prehistory. In Andy Warhol’s Kiss (1963-64), […]
Blu Review: ‘The Shakedown’ (Early Universal Vol. 1, Eureka)
by Ruairí McCann The Shakedown (1929) has just found its way to a Blu-ray release, via Eureka’s Masters of Cinema line and the boxset Early Universal Vol.1, where […]
Book Review: ‘Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville’ by Andrew Dickos
Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville is a well-researched and written primer for one of French cinema’s greatest mad mercenaries and lionhearts.
Two Short Films by Atoosa Pour Hosseini, A Report from LUMINOUS VOID: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society at the Project Arts Centre
Atoosa Pour Hosseini is intent on depicting and blurring notions of performed art and documentary footage with mythic and deconstructed imagery, and the Holocene mingled with the Anthropocene.
Blu Review: Two Silent Films by John Ford (Eureka!)
by Ruairí McCann Produced and released by Eureka Entertainment’s Masters of Cinema line, this new Blu-ray boxset of two early silent John Ford westerns is most welcome. Not only […]
Diaspora and Disappearance: ‘Letter From Your Far-Off Country’ and ‘Maat Means Land’
In our first piece of ‘Prismatic Ground’ coverage, Ruairí McCann compares ‘Maat Means Land’ and ‘Letter From Your Far-Off Country’